It's true: Every time you kill an elk, you're saving some cow's life. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“In that moment of truce, of utter surrender, when the rabbit still alive offers no resistance but only waits, is it possible… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“For chrissake folks what is this life if full of care we have no time to stand and stare? Take off your… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Lifting her lovely and longing face towards the inaudible chant of the sun, she drifted through her time, through space, through the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I shouldn't call it shit. That's a bit crude. I don't really despise Christianity or even the Roman Church, and certainly… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“The sun is rising through a yellow, howling wind. Time for breakfast. Inside the trailer now, broiling bacon and frying eggs with… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“The weather here is windy, balmy, sometimes wet. Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Devoted though we must be to the conservation cause, I do not believe that any of us should give it all of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Light. Space. Light and space without time, I think, for this is a country with only the slightest traces of human history.… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Hard times are a-coming, and people without useful, practical skills are going to suffer. Or suffer most.” — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“All things are in motion, all is in process, nothing abides, nothing will ever change in this eternal moment.” — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century. — Edward Abbey Copy Share
“Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all. — Edward Abbey Copy Share
“But why, the questioner insists, why do people like you pretend to love uninhabited country so much? Why this cult of wilderness? Why the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. — Edward Abbey Copy Share
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
“Me, I'm living under a sword too, as Jack may have told you. An old wino's disease, which could lay me in the grave… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
“Look here, I want to say, for godsake folks get out of them there machines, take off those fucking sunglasses and unpeel both eyeballs,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share
“What is the essence of the art of writing? Part One: Have something to say. Part Two: Say it well.” — Edward Abbey Copy Share
